the road not taken by david brooks. all of the groups of republicans share the same mentality. >> mike barnicle, it's so fascinating. you could lift -- you could lift what david brooks just wrote about this republican class and say the same thing about democrats in 2009. they believe they are gods of the new dawn. we talked about it every day. people get elected in washington. they come to washington. and whether the congressman, senators, or presidents, they say this is our time. this -- america is behind us, this is our time and then they push whether it's health care for a year and a half while americans are saying job, or whether it's tax reform as the republicans are pushing now. well america is seeing more jobs, they all miss the central message, it's never their time. it's always america's time. it's always the voter's time. it's never ideologues time. >> joe, you're right. from january of '09, ted kennedy lived, the health care debate would have been changed dramatically. because he would have cut a deal. it wou